Quotes of: Dead-horse Keyword

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

Jewish

The horse may wish to do one thing, but he who saddles him another.

Spanish

The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There is no need to choose between the fetishism of spontaneity and the organization control; between the "come one, come all" of ac...

Coming Insurrection, The

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour ...

The War of the Worlds

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in ...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Are you scared?” He taunted, an amused smirk lifting the corner of his mouth. I raised my chin a fraction. “No. I…just…I haven’t ridden a horse before.” He leaned forward and patted the horse’s neck. “Prism is gentle. You have my word...

P.S. I'm Waiting... Vol I

Marshal Curly Wilcox: Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife. Chris: Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip a...

Stagecoach

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...

Coal Black Horse

One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them.

The Horse and His Boy

Daughter," said the Hermit, "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never met any such thing as Luck.

The Horse and His Boy

Child" said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

The Horse and His Boy

I don't know why Rachel is the way she is, but I hope one day she will get over it. She may be hiding something none of us understand.

Believing in Horses, Too

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

All the Pretty Horses

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

The Horse's Mouth

C.H.R.I.S.T.I.A.N.I.T.Y.: it’s not so much the thing itself, but the side effects that kill you – the opportunistic infections of misinterpretation and politics – and the parasites that come with it.

A Horse Named Sorrow

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

A Horse Named Sorrow

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.

A Horse Named Sorrow

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

As I Lay Dying

positivity is the father of reinvention

And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey